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Wellton Hospital made the National Top3 for Hip Replacement Surgery

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We proudly announce that WELLTON HOSPITAL has officially made the National Top 3 hospitals for the most Hip Replacement Surgery done in 2013.  

<News excerpt from Dong-A Daily>

Local Hospitals doing more surgery than the Big 5.

Recently there has been a tendency in patients choosing local hospitals for a number of surgeries over major medical centers in Seoul.

Top 10 for the Total Hip Replacement done in 2013

№	Location	Name of Institution	# of cases (THR)	# of patients (THR)
1	Chonnam Prov.	Hawsoon Chonnam Univ. Medical Center	493	430
2	Seoul	Samsung Medical Center	471	420
3	Seoul	WELLTON HOSPITAL	319	259
4	Kyung-gi Prov.	Bundang Seoul National Univ. Medical Center	233	203
5	Seoul	Asan Medical Center	216	207
6	Seoul	Kyunghee Univ. Medical Center	216	190
7	Chonnam Prov.	Yeosu Aeyang Hospital	198	175
8	Seoul	Seoul National Univ. Medical Center	185	168
9	Seoul	Gang-dong Kyunghee Univ. Medical Center	173	146
10	Seoul	Catholic Univ. Seoul St. Mary's Medical Center	172	153

According to the Performance Reporting in 2013 by HIRA (Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service), there were two local hospitals ranked as top 10 for the total hip replacement in 2013.  This is a remarkable result because both hospitals ranked even higher than two of the Big 5 Medical Centers, Seoul National University Medical Center and Seoul St. Mary’s Medical Center.

Congresswoman Nam-Yoon, a member of Health and Welfare Committee of National Assembly said, she has seen a possibility to resolve the Bandwagon effect in major medical centers in Seoul, and government should put continuous effort to balance and distribute patients more fairly among medical service providers.

There are three advantages of local hospitals, cost, technology and distance.

Many experts say, these local hospitals have absolute advantages over the big named medical centers.  Local hospitals can cost you 30~60% less than medical centers, and are equally or more advanced in technology; moreover they are located in the neighborhood, so that people do not need to travel far to get treatments.

For this, government plan aims to resolve herd behaviors in medical centers and help local hospitals to be more competent.  By doing so, government expect to reduce the overall cost of medical service but keep the quality high.